Press Release, July 18, 2013
On July 30 YABLOKO to hold a mass meeting “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, July 18, 2013
On July 30 YABLOKO to hold a mass meeting “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press release, July 19, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin expressed his satisfaction with the decision of the acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to revoke (after Mitrokhin’s criticism) his previous decision on abolishing touch-screen voting machines at the coming Moscow mayoral elections. Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site, July 18, 2013
Just now Russia’s political system has made another leap towards a totalitarian state. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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YABLOKO’s Press Service
July 18, 2013
We will be by all means seeking justice for Alexei Navalny and Pyotr
Ofitserov. A severe sentence to Navalny and Ofitserov is provocative
and dangerous political signal. The country is pushed towards
political chaos and absurdity. The political system functioning
according to the principle “you die today, and I will die tomorrow” is
not sustainable. The only way to save Russia as a state is returning
the country to the legal terrain.
Grigory Yavlinsky
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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Press Release,July 18, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin urged Alexei Navalny not to retreat
from the Moscow mayoral election and go all the way. Mitrokhin said
this in his interview to the Dozhd (Rain) private television channel. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Statement by the YABLOKO party
July 18, 2013
Demonstrative cruelty and intentionally inadequate sentence to Alexei
Navalny and YABLOKO member Pyotr Ofitserov is clearly linked to
oppositional activities of Alexei Navalny. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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July 17, 2013
Author : Victor Kogan-Yasny
The “Eastern Partnership” is an important and interesting programme of the European Union. In my view, this programme is substantially more important than it can seem at the first glance. Read more »
Posted: July 17th, 2013 under Russia-Eu relations.
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Press Release, July 15, 2013
On July 10, the Bureau of the YABLOKO party adopted a statement in connection with skyrocketing growth of tariffs on housing and
utilities payments in Russia. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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Press Release, July 15, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, demanding to file a criminal case under Article 285 of the Criminal Code (“abuse of power”) in respect of the officials who organized “landscape works” of Tverskaya Street in the centre of Moscow. Over 500 million roubles were allotted for the work, while the cost of the materials needed for landscaping was overstated tenfold. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Views.
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Statement by YABLOKO Chairman
July 15, 2013
Four years ago, on July 15, 2009, Natalya Estemirova, human rights activist and journalist, member of the Grozny, Chechnya, branch of the Memorial human rights centre and member of the Public Observers Commission on the Republic of Chechnya, was abducted in Chechnya and murdered. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under Human Rights, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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Press Release, July 12, 2013
On July 12, the Moscow Electoral Commission examined Sergei Mitrokhin’s lists with signatures of municipal deputies required for
nomination as candidate to the Moscow Mayor. Sergei Mitrokhin submitted 115 signatures, and the Moscow Electoral Commission
recognised 114 signatures as valid.One of the signatures was considered invalid, as municipal deputyAlexander Grusha signed in support of two candidates: Ivan Melnikov from the Communist Party and Sergei Mitrokhin from YABLOKO. Ivan Melnikov submitted the signatures to the Moscow Electoral Commission
before Sergei Mitrokhin. Read more »
Posted: July 12th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Press Release, July 11, 2013
Candidates from YABLOKO to the City Council of the Myski city, the Kemerovo region, are threatened with dismissals because of running from the YABLOKO party. They were asked to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race.
Today three people from the party list, miners from the Sibirginskaya mine – Alexander Nizhatov, Alexei Terendin and Nadezhda Guseva – were summoned to the employer and under the threat of loosing their jobs were told to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race. Read more »
Posted: July 11th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau
July 10, 2013
On July 2 the Russian Proton-M rocket with the upper stage Block-DM3 (which contained 600 tons of highly-toxic heptyl) carrying three Glonass satellites crashed down seconds after its launch from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre. A heptyl cloud formed above the space centre. Heptyl is dangerous even in microscopic amounts as it causes mutations, cancer diseases and saves toxicity for years and can store up in living organisms. This has been the third accident in the Russian space industry since the beginning of 2013. Read more »
Posted: July 10th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, July 7, 2013
YABLOKO’s activists participated in the action in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Krimsk. The action was conducted at the observation platform of the Sparrow Hills. The participants of the action placed the candles to form the word “KRIMSK” and announced a minute of silence to honour the memory of the victims of the flood.
Posted: July 7th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, July 5, 2013
On June 5 YABLOKO’s activists conducted a series of one-person pickets by the State Duma against the reform of the Academy of Sciences. YABLOKO leaders Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the action.
Posted: July 5th, 2013 under Activities.
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Press Release, July 5, 2013
On June 17 a public relief fund Social Justice in support of the poor in Krasnodar conducted a statutory conference where they announced the collection of signatures for denationalisation and deportation of those who in their opinion are enemies of Russia’s state-building. Chair of YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin, blogger Alexei Navalny and other leaders of the protest movement are on the list.
Posted: July 5th, 2013 under Activities.
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Statement by member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee
July 4, 2013
The attempt to force the reform of the Academy of Sciences is another striking example of the government’s complete disrespect for the citizens and an insurmountable rift between the state and society. Read more »
Posted: July 4th, 2013 under Topics of the day, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Views.
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Press Release, July 2, 2013
Members of Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a meeting against the reform of the Academy of Sciences proposed by the government. The meeting was held outside Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Universitetskaya Embankment. Deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly (the YABLOKO faction), Professor Alexander Korbinsky addressed the meeting.
Read more »
Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Izvestia, Press Release, July 2, 2013
Member of Opposition Coordination Council Nicolay Bondarik filed a claim against deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the YABLOKO faction Boris Vishnevsky for protection of honour, dignity and business reputation. Bondarik was outraged by the fact that Vishnevsky called him a fascist in his blog. Read more »
Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Vedomosti, July 2, 2013
An action against the reform of the Academy of Sciences started in St. Petersburg. Interfax called it “a special meeting in the open air” and according to the news agency, several hundred people took part in it. According to Fontanka.ru, about 200 hundred people participated in the rally which took place outside Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Universitetskaya Embankment. Read more »
Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under Education and Science, Social Policies.
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